If you would like to learn more about the Forgotten Reams campaign setting, look no further than WotC's official Forgotten Realms website. Though not an exhaustive source of information, it does serve to let you get a taste of the Realms' flavor.
You may also like to visit the free downloads section at the official WotC site and get Volo's Guide to Cormyr by Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms themselves. Though written from Volo's perspective, the guide gives an excellent impression of Cormyr, how its people live, and how they feel about King and Country. Elminster, the Sage of Shadowdale, has added his comments on Volo's work to inject a grain of truth or provide a word of caution, as necessary.
A great source of unofficial, fan-created articles and information about the Realms can be found at Candlekeep.
On this page, I will only briefly cover some items that are handy for players to know.
Each week in the Realms consists of ten days, and is referred to as a "ride" or a "tenday." There are three "rides" per month, and twelve months in a year. The table below shows the Realmsian names of each month along with their colloquial decriptions and Gregorian equivalents. Also shown are the five yearly "holidays" (in italics) that are commonly celebrated.
| Number | Realmsian Name | Colloquial Description | Gregorian Equivalent |
| 1 | Hammer | Deepwinter | January |
| Midwinter | |||
| 2 | Alturiak | The Claw of Winter, or The Claws of the Cold | February |
| 3 | Ches | of the Sunsets | March |
| 4 | Tarsakh | of the Storms | April |
| Greengrass | |||
| 5 | Mirtul | The Melting | May |
| 6 | Kythorn | The Time of Flowers | June |
| 7 | Flamerule | Summertide | July |
| Midsummer | |||
| 8 | Eleasias | Highsun | August |
| 9 | Eleint | The Fading | September |
| Higharvestide | |||
| 10 | Marpenoth | Leafall | October |
| 11 | Uktar | The Rotting | November |
| The Feast of the Moon | |||
| 12 | Nightal | The Drawing Down | December |
The Kingdom of Cormyr mints its own currency, each with a dragon rampant on the face and a mint mark on the reverse. The following table illustrates the names of the coins:
| Coin Type | Cormyrean Name |
| Copper | Thumb |
| Silver | Falcon |
| Electrum | Eye |
| Gold | Lion |
| Platinum | Tricrown |
Ed Greenwood posted some information regarding fashion in Cormyr on the Forgotten Realms mailing list some time ago. Here's what he had to say on the subject:
My work in [Volo's Guide to Cormyr] tells you court high fashion and what the dandies wear. For farm laborers, think high, 'swash-top' or 'bucket-top' (turned-down cuff at the knee) leather boots, over which are worn calf-length cotton dresses or leather breeches. Both sexes wear smocks (yes, medieval smocks, no not art smocks or hospital gowns) over this, with caps and half-cloaks (think Inverness cape) in cold weather, and great mittens, arm-and-leg wraps (huge woollen scarves), and greatcloaks' or 'weathercloaks' (huge, heavy woollen overcoats) in severe winter weather. In hot weather, male farm laborers doff their smocks and go naked to the waist; females generally adopt a garment that consists of cotton fabric, a button throat-collar with a bodice down the front, that ends in two trailing ties that are knotted to the belt, leaving the woman's back bare (the ties are long enough to be crossed over and knotted tightly for more modesty, if desired).
Cottons (plain colors, not patterns), woollens, and leathers predominate; all are easily and cheaply available, but bear in mind that poor people will have less than this 'ideal wardrobe.'
Only the idle wealthy wear hose, sashes, and 'swash' shirts with open fronts and puffed sleeves; practicality is the order for everyone else. Many merchants wear leather forearm-bracers to protect them in handling crates, etc., and to store writing-sticks (chalk and blackstrap 'crayons,' like our wax pencils) tucked into, and many folk think 'merchant' whenever they see a person wearing such bracers.